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<p> <del> I should be exceedingly sorry if Sir James or you should imagine</del> </p> <p> Your attachment to Old England cannot be greater than mine<lb/> my great ambition is one day or other to be able to distinguish myself<lb/> by being <add> able</add> in some way or other of doing some service to my country. <del> It is that</del> <lb/> I did not <del>for</del> by any means lose sight of that desire by the plan I <lb/> proposed to follow. One way at last in which I have of distinguishing myself<lb/> is by some mechanical contrivances which </p> <p> My idea was that where a contrivance of <gap/> kind requires<lb/> experiments to bring it to perfection and I can find opportunities <lb/>of being them and <gap/> at the same but people have without<lb/> any <gap/> that the circumstance of the <add> great </add> advantage. it may be<lb/> if to this as a <gap/> <gap/> was not an objection with <gap/> <lb/> <gap/> of the nature which should deter me from it.</p> <p>I do assure you Sir I <gap/> <gap/> to beg you to <gap/> in my arts<lb/> <gap/> & <gap/> my claim to your friendship of which I am very far from having I could <gap/> <lb/> meant only to know how <add> pray you <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> to <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> </add> you might approve of a countryman taking<lb/> such a step in case it was possible.</p> <p> Davies<lb/> This is a passage in a letter from a friend of mine at <gap/> I <add> leave you </add> guess<lb/> the author.</p> | <p> <del> I should be exceedingly sorry if Sir James or you should imagine</del> </p> | ||
<p> Your attachment to Old England cannot be greater than mine<lb/> my great ambition is one day or other to be able to distinguish myself<lb/> by being <add> able</add> in some way or other of doing some service to my country. <del> It is that</del> <lb/> I did not <del>for</del> by any means lose sight of that desire by the plan I <lb/> proposed to follow. One way at last in which I have of distinguishing myself<lb/> is by some mechanical contrivances which </p> | |||
<p> My idea was that where a contrivance of <gap/> kind requires<lb/> experiments to bring it to perfection and I can find opportunities <lb/>of being them and <gap/> at the same but people have without<lb/> any <gap/> that the circumstance of the <add> great </add> advantage. it may be<lb/> if to this as a <gap/> <gap/> was not an objection with <gap/> <lb/> <gap/> of the nature which should deter me from it.</p> <p>I do assure you Sir I <gap/> <gap/> to beg you to <gap/> in my arts<lb/> <gap/> & <gap/> my claim to your friendship of which I am very far from having I could <gap/> <lb/> meant only to know how <add> pray you <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> to <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> </add> you might approve of a countryman taking<lb/> such a step in case it was possible.</p> <p> Davies<lb/> This is a passage in a letter from a friend of mine at <gap/> I <add> leave you </add> guess<lb/> the author.</p> | |||
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I should be exceedingly sorry if Sir James or you should imagine
Your attachment to Old England cannot be greater than mine
my great ambition is one day or other to be able to distinguish myself
by being able in some way or other of doing some service to my country. It is that
I did not for by any means lose sight of that desire by the plan I
proposed to follow. One way at last in which I have of distinguishing myself
is by some mechanical contrivances which
My idea was that where a contrivance of kind requires
experiments to bring it to perfection and I can find opportunities
of being them and at the same but people have without
any that the circumstance of the great advantage. it may be
if to this as a was not an objection with
of the nature which should deter me from it.
I do assure you Sir I to beg you to in my arts
& my claim to your friendship of which I am very far from having I could
meant only to know how pray you to you might approve of a countryman taking
such a step in case it was possible.
Davies
This is a passage in a letter from a friend of mine at I leave you guess
the author.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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